What's Happening

What's Changing?

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he F$M Project will change the way users perform financial management: from inputting proposals, to statusing purchasing requests, to closing out projects, to generating financial reports. The goal is to deliver a set of integrated, streamlined, and improved Financial service solutions.

What Does it Mean for You?

All Project IDs are changing October 1, 2014!

Why change the Project IDs? – One of the key improvements in the new financial system is a more robust data structure-- including the Project ID structure-- that provides more effective financial reporting for decision-making, and better flexibility to meet the Lab’s needs into the future. Learn more by taking this short online course.

What does it mean? Everywhere you would use a Project ID after 10/1/14 (e.g., LETS, eBuy, TREX, Software Download), you will need to use a new, numeric Project ID (e.g., 123456) AND an Activity ID (001).
What should you do? To help you determine your new values, you can use the online Project ID Lookup Tool. go.lbl.gov/emc

In many places, such as LETS, you will be able to search on the 30-character project and activity descriptions to help you choose the right values. If you have a valid prefill in LETS, it will be converted for you.

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Project Scope:

Service Areas:

During the Analyze stage of the project, the F$M team collected a comprehensive list of requested functionalities for the new system. Not all of these requests are cost-effective to implement, so they were prioritized (High, Medium 1-2-3, or Low) based on impact, business criticality, and suitability of workarounds.

The majority of the requested functionalities were categorized as High and Medium 1, and are in scope for the project. Designs for these will be posted as available. In addition, the Medium 2 priority requests will be designed, and if budget allows, would be built in priority order, taking into account the rankings determined by the F$M Stakeholder Committee.